Mayor Alvin Brown's staff highlights cost cutting, holding the line on taxes and jobs creation in a summary of his accomplishments.

How would you grade Brown on his first year -- would you give him an A, B, C or D?

Here are highlights from the staff's list:

* Worked with City Council to close a $58 million shortfall to balance the FY12 budget without increasing taxes or fees or dipping into city reserves.

* Reduced government size by more than 200 positions, including 50 mayoral appointees, as part of overal restructuring that has reduced payroll by nearly $1 million biweekly.

* Launched a government reform plan with the 16-1 backing of City Council that has saved taxpayers $1.3 million and counting as the administration prepares for the FY13 budget.

* Streamlined city economic development functions by transforming the Jacksonville Economic Development Commission into the Office of Economic Development.

* Saw unemployment decline by nearly three percentage points as 2,930 new jobs in medical research, aviation, manufacturing and industrial food processing came on line.

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Appointed the city's first ever education commissioner, Dr. Donnie Horner, an executive-on-loan for $1-a-year from Jacksonville University. Through the education commissioner, the mayor reached out to dozens of schools, thousands of students and constituents and numerous stakeholders as part of a mission of advocacy, engagement, partnership and action to increase quality in education and workforce development.

* Helped to secure approximately $200,000 in private commitments to preserve JROTC programs for nearly 500 students at fourJacksonvillepublic high schools:Englewood, Mandarin, Raines and Wolfson. Also assisted efforts to secure funds to save 25 middle school football programs in Jacksonville.

* Elevated military and veterans affairs to a cabinet position and hired a retired two-star admiral, Victor Guillory, to serve the position and build a stronger bridge between City Hall and the roughly 240,000Jacksonvilleresidents who claim a direct connection to the military through active or reserve duty or as a guardsman or veteran.

The list of accomplishments is seven pages and can be found here [http://www.scribd.com/doc/98648313/Jacksonville-Mayor-Alvin-Brown-s-accomplishments].